This program is informed by an interdisciplinary investigation of digital infrastructure; sustainability, maintenance, innovation, and repair; community management; theories of change; and collective organizing.
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- brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017.
- Bloom, Greg. “The Principles of Governing Open Source Commons.” SustainOSS, 2020.
- The Digital Infrastructure Research Program Collaborative Notes Bibliography.
- Educopia, “Community Cultivation: A Field Guide.” Atlanta, GA: Educopia Institute Publications, 2018.
- Eghbal, Nadia. “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor behind Our Digital Infrastructure.” Ford Foundation, 2016.
- ____. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. San Fransisco, CA: Stripe Press, 2020.
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- Konrad Hinsen, “Dealing with Software Collapse.” Computing in Science and Engineering 21(3): 2019.
- Jackson, Steven L. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie et al. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
- Joseph, Miranda. Against the Romance of Community. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Katz, Daniel. “Fundamentals of Software Sustainability” 2018.
- O’Shea, Lizzie. Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology. London: Verso, 2019.
- Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press: 2015.
- Ribes, David and Thomas Finholt. “The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure: Articulating Tensions in Development.” Journal for the Association of Information Systems (JAIS) 10(5): 2019.
- Siegel Foundation, “Infrastructure Influences Everything.” Siegel Family Endowment, 2020.
- Vinsel, Lee and Andrew Russel. The Innovation Delusion. New York: Penguin Books, 2020.
- Ziser, Michael. “Living with Speculative Infrastructures.” Boom 3(4): 2013.